This action, if it is indeed the studios'​ goal, resets fan films to a simpler time, when costs prohibited them from threatening Star Trek's copyrights in any meaningful way that can't be handled with C&Ds. Axanar'​s fundraising success had put it in a new category: A fan film with lots of cash on hand. No C&D could, by itself, deal with the reality of that money. A lawsuit provided the only instrument to address the hundreds of thousands of dollars Axanar still had on hand while its film continued to be postponed, as well as the way hundreds of thousands more had already been spent as seed funding for the company'​s commercial ventures.

This action, if it is indeed the studios'​ goal, resets fan films to a simpler time, when costs prohibited them from threatening Star Trek's copyrights in any meaningful way that can't be handled with C&Ds. Axanar'​s fundraising success had put it in a new category: A fan film with lots of cash on hand. No C&D could, by itself, deal with the reality of that money. A lawsuit provided the only instrument to address the hundreds of thousands of dollars Axanar still had on hand while its film continued to be postponed, as well as the way hundreds of thousands more had already been spent as seed funding for the company'​s commercial ventures.

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Where do other fan films go from here? Their territory remains uncharted. {{:​axamonitor-ico.gif?​nolink|}}

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Where do other fan films go from here? That territory remains uncharted. {{:​axamonitor-ico.gif?​nolink|}}